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minor child. As he is under 14 years of age the court of ordinary appoints his guardian. Willie Sims. the Augusta colored boy who has made such a big reputation in the east as a jockey, and who rodeL amplighter in the great Brooklyn handicap last week. is in a peck of trouble. A great turf scandal has out of the race. Pierre says grown owner of Lamplighter, his Lorillard, horse was the beaten by fraud, and has asked for an investigation. He says that seven horses were entered in one interest in the race. Trainer Huggins, in his report to Mr. Lorillard, who is ill, strongly insinuated. if he did not actually declare, that Sims pulled Lamplighter. This, however, may have been done in the heat of the moment. Sims has been riding for Huggins since then, and has been riding well. The investigation will be had and this insinuation or charge will be looked into. Sims is well known at Augusta. The purse to the winner in the handicap was $25,000. There was $1,000,000 bet on the race and Lamplighter was a strong favorite. Sims' family lives at Augusta. He visits Augusta every winter. Sims has $10,000 worth of property in Augusta. He owns property elsewhere and is quite wealthy. Three men who composed the "firm" of W. B. Pallett & Co. have been operating in Maand Schley counties during the week. It is said that they past rion. Sumter $1,500. received in Schley from parties in Sumter county $700 and in Marion $800. Among those who paid in Marion county were P. S. Stevens. M. W. Fouche, Joseph Cranford. All the parties were caught to the amount of $125 each. The agents represented that they were the patentof a patent wire fence which was to be at Americus. They in a militia district manufactured one ees man only of approached the county in which they were operating to receive a certain percentage of the sales in his territory. They required, however, that each agent make over to him a binding contract for the amount of $125. which, when indorsed by Pallett & Co., was a tradable note, This, they said. was to protect them from the manufacturers on their royalty. Those notes were traded as fast as received and the money realized on them. Some of the parties who were not satisfied with the notes being traded went to Americus and demanded their notes, but they could not get out of it without paying from $50 to 875. Brunswick Advertiser: Bank Examiner McDonald of Montgomery, Ala., a recent appointee of President Cleveland, arrived this morning and has taken entire charge of the Oglethorpe and First National banks. The clerical force of each bank will assist in the work of their respective institutions. Mr. McDonald will not be able to reach any conclusion under a week or ten days as to the course that may be pursued, His first work will be to find out the actual condition of the banks, their liabilities. assets, and the probability of realizing on them. If the embaris of a temporary pressure can be collections rassment relieved by sufficient that to bring either of them within the limits of the law, or by assessments upon their stockholders, be allowed to open time, the date of they specified will which he within will set. a If they are found to be in such a condition, as will admit, by collections, they might be orinto at a If or either are dered they to go liquidation deeply involved stated time. in a general way, a receiver would be appointed who would proceed by legal steps to wind up the business. In the latter event the temper and discretion of the receiver might lessen or increase the hazard, according to his disposition or leniency or eagerness of a rapid settlement. It would be within his power to place every defaulting creditor in the hands of a receiver, or to accommodate them to a certain degree. We can only tell by waiting what will be done and how it will be done. The term of McDonald's control of the banks, or either of them. will be determined by conditions and complications existing or liable to be sprung. Herman Myers of Savannah said he did not refuse Mr. Ullman money Wednesday and that the message found in his pocket was of an old date. He sent him $2,500 just as the bank closed. It was learned that one of the messages found was from the vice president of the bank refusing to go Mr. Ullman's bond for the $15,000 for County Treasurer Lamb.